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...by reminding it of its destination, where the loneliness of migration will terminate in social joy: "Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, / And...reeds shall bend, / Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest." Enviously, he notes that the waterfowl's lonely flight through "the desert and illimitable air" is...

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..."To a Waterfowl"? There too the poet contemplates how a single being disappears into the vastness: Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up...lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. The difference, of course, is that Bryant's perception of disappearance leaves him, and us, with a...

...the cold thin atmosphere: yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end, soon shalt thou find...summer home, and rest, and scream among thy fellows; reed shall bend soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven hath swallowed up thy...

...Waterfowl," a poem of nineteenth-century New England that nevertheless expressed what I most wanted to say: "Thou'rt gone / The abyss of heaven / Hath swallowed...lesson thou hast given, / And shall not soon depart." Although I fully recognized its implications only in retrospect, among the precepts I had learned in...

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